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Mark Perrott, Chief Executive, has worked in the inner city for 18 years. He spent 6 years working for The Earls Court Project with those caught up in life-controlling issues and homelessness. He was then founder and chief executive of The Regeneration Trust which pioneered and developed work on the Worlds End Estate (1996-2005) and on estates in Tollington, North London (2003-2005). Over the last 5 years Mark has developed the Toolkit model, mobilising over 400 people into community-based action. mark@catalysttrust.org | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Toby Baxter, Director of Community Development, has 16 years in Community Development & Social Work. He has worked with high risk youth and trained and mobilised over 300 mentors and coaches in the UK and Australia. He has management experience with South East Alcohol & Drug Services and with New Peninsula Community Caring in Melbourne, Australia, and as a consultant to the Youth Justice Board of England and Wales. He has published 3 training programmes for mentors and coaches working in the inner city and managed a Youth Crime Prevention Scheme on public housing estates in Banbury and North and West Oxfordshire. toby@catalysttrust.org Polly Harrington, Project Manager, works in TV presentation and production and has experience in project management and development in a variety of settings. She is also a Grandma's volunteer supporting a child with HIV and has worked with ex-offenders in the past. polly@catalysttrust.org |
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Ife Igunnubole (originally from Nigeria) has worked in Hackney for 4 years and became a COACH coordinator, for Catalyst, in 2007 and has trained and mobilised over 50 coaches and community leaders into the Colville Estate and De Beauvois Estates. He currently supports 25 coaches and community leaders on these estates. He is passionate about coaching and mentoring and aims to see a coach on every corner of Hackney, working with vulnerable youth. Ife runs the Hackney COACH - Community Mentoring and Leadership programmes. |
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Andy Smith andy@catalysttrust.org Andy is co-founder and head of youth and community services for Regenerate, a charity working into the Alton estate in South West London. He lives on the estate where Regenerate has been working for seven years, running projects for children, young people and families. They are now starting to work on other estates in South and West London using a mobile youth centre (a converted double decker bus) and are also in the process of setting up a new creative arts centre for young people in Roehampton. Andy has also been involved with taking young people from the estates over to Kenya and is helping set up projects there for young people who live on the streets or in slums. |
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Nick & Helen Russell helenandnick@catalysttrust.org Nick & Helen Russell, have been living and working on the Ferrier Estate (Greenwich) for several years with children, youth gangs, addicts, marginalised people and families at risk. They have a background in community development, evangelism and are committed to supporting the community as it transitions through a difficult period of redevelopment. |
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David Trebilcock david@catalysttrust.org David Trebilcock trained as a social worker and completed an MSc in Applied Social Studies at Oxford University. He worked for 14 years with the Probation Service supervising adult offenders, specialising in sex offenders. For part of this time he was seconded to the prison service and worked at HMP Grendon as part of the assessment team and, again, with sex offenders. This was followed by work at HMP Spring Hill, an open prison before returning to court work. He helped to set up the Oxfordshire Youth Mentoring Scheme with Toby Baxter of the Crime Intervention Service. David also works part-time as a drugs worker with a local GP, with patients who are dependent on heroin. During the rest of his week he is a Project Manager with Spurgeons overseeing community projects in Oxford and Banbury. |
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Jon Holder (originally from Herefordshire) has worked for St Andrew's Church for 2 years and is a qualified youth worker. He works on the Cutteslowe Estate in North Oxford and supports 20 coaches. He wants to see every young person flourish on the Cutteslowe estate. He has a passion for empowering young people and for street children and orphans in Africa. He has co-ed COACH - Community Leadership trips to Kenya. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Charlotte Hansen (originally from Denmark) has worked for XLP (www.xlp.org.uk) since September 2001. She has been the borough leader since September 2003 and has been working in secondary schools, estates and with a variety of different community and youth work organisations since her time here. She has a passion to see young people equipped to fulfil their potential. Charlotte runs the Southwark COACH programme. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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